The Ilyushin Il-18D is a four-engine medium-range transport aircraft for up to 5 crew and 110 passengers.
Flown for the first time on July 4th 1957 the Il-18 Moskva (Moscow) was originally powered by Kuznetsov NK-4
turboprops, but the Ivchenko AI-20 was adopted as standard at an early production stage. Deliveries of the
Il-18 (NATO reporting name 'Coot') started in 1959 and the 75-seat Il-18 entered service on April 20th 1959
on a domestic Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Adler. Further developments of the model resulted in a number
of improvements and growing capacity. The last civil production version, the Il-18D built from 1965-69, was
utilised with the 4250 hp AE-20K engine could carry 110 or max 122 passengers. When production ended in
1969, over 600 Il-18 airliners of all versions were built in the GAZ-30 Znamya Truda (Banner of Labour)
plant at Khodinka in Moscow in the former USSR. The ICAO Aircraft Type Designator with Wake Category used to classify
aircraft types for the Ilyushin IL-18D is IL18
Aeroflot Il-18D CCCP-75499 was seen on the early morning of 12 November 1991.
However this 1968-built aeroplane wears the Aeroflot colours, it was not a normal passenger
aircraft. The Ilyushin was operated in a VIP-configuration on behalf of the Belarusian Government.
On 11 November 1991, the Il-18D came in at Groningen Airport Eelde, the Netherlands, with a Belarusian trading delegation.
Registration CCCP-75499 shown on the aircraft is in Cyrillic and means SSSR-75499. After the split up of the Soviet Union,
the Ilyushin was registered RA-75499 in Russia.
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